Category: Soapworld

Ade Edmondson has blasted British soaps for their negative portrayal of the British public. The actor was highly critical of the soaps during an interview with Reader’s Digest. Edmondson told the magazine ‘Can someone tell me what’s wrong with a bit of feel-good telly? Haven’t we got enough selfish, aggressive programmes? The soaps are full of unpleasant people. If you […]

A tabloid report claims there is a crisis at EastEnders as ratings have slumped. Last year it was Coronation Street which was in crisis this year it’s EastEnders if the tabloids are to be believed. The Mirror is claiming that bosses at the BBC are in crisis talks as ratings for flagship soap EastEnders have fallen, the paper claims, by […]

Struggling ABC soap General Hospital sank to a new ratings low for the second week in a row. The medical soap is the last remaining series on ABC following the demise of One Live to Life and All My Children. General Hospital remains the lowest rated daytime soap in America and the fact it has sunk to another ratings low […]

Rape isn’t new to soap opera, all the British sagas have covered it in some form or other over the years, however a recent storyline in Corrie concerning the subject has had to be defended by the producer. Phil Collinson spoke about the recent plot which saw the character Carla Connor raped by boyfriend Frank Foster and the subsequent court […]

4DVD have given their biggest indication yet that a best of Brookside DVD will be released in time for Channel 4’s 30th anniversary in November. As we reported yesterday the Brookside DVD Campaign had in the last week been gaining a lot of support from users on social networking site Twitter backing the idea of a DVD containing classic episodes […]

bet365bingo is to be the new sponsor of ITV Yorkshire’s rural soap, Emmerdale. The sponsorship package, negotiated by ITV Commercial, Drummond Central and Republic of Media on behalf of bet365bingo, kicks off on 12th March 2012. The new package is bet365bingo’s first broadcast sponsorship, and will run across Emmerdale content on all ITV channels, as well as the online and […]

The Brookside DVD Campaign has in the last week been gaining a lot of Twitter followers as they prepare themselves for news from 4DVD on the hope that fans of the Channel 4 soap will be enjoying episodes on DVD in time for Christmas. Brookside, axed in 2003, has continued to prove popular with fans despite no major repeats or […]

John Yorke is to become Acting Editor of BBC Radio Four‘s rural soap The Archers. Yorke, who is BBC Vision’s Controller of Drama Production and New Talent, will become temporary editor on The Archers while Vanessa Whitburn takes long service leave until July. Yorke will become acting editor for the farming based soap at the end of this month. “It’s […]

Actress Nikki Patel is leaving ITV soap Coronation Street once more. The actress will bow out as Amber Kalirai next month after a series of clashes with her step-mother Sunita (Shobna Gulati). Patel reprised her role of Amber, daughter of Corner Shop owner Dev (Jimmi Harkishin), late last year. Amber returned from University to life with her father Dev and […]

Struggling ABC soap General Hospital has sunk to a new ratings low. The medical soap’s future is already under considerable doubt given the fact that Katie Couric’s new chat-show will launch, later this year, in the time-slot General Hospital currently occupies. There are rumours and hearsay flying around concerning the future of General Hospital with a possible move to another […]